CS 557: Machine Learning

Prof. Jason Sauppe | Fall 2020

This page contains a course schedule for CS 557. Rows in gray are tentative and will be updated as the course progresses. Other course content (e.g., slides, assignments) can be found on Canvas.

Content Week Day Date In-Class Reading Additional Notes
Intro 01 Mon. 09/07 No Class
Wed. 09/09 Syllabus, 19.1, 19.2
Fri. 09/11 (Online: #02)
Decision Trees 02 Mon. 09/14 Class cancelled
Wed. 09/16 (Online: #03) 19.3
Fri. 09/18 (Online: #04)
Linear Regression 03 Mon. 09/21 (Online: #05) 19.6.1 Assignment 01 available
Wed. 09/23 (Online: #06) 19.6.3, A.2
Fri. 09/25 (Online: #07) 19.6.2
Model Selection
& Optimization
04 Mon. 09/28 (Online: #08)
Wed. 09/30 (Online: #09) 19.4
Fri. 10/02 (Online: #10/11)
Linear Classification 05 Mon. 10/05 19.6.4 Assignment 01 due
Wed. 10/07 (Online: #13)
Fri. 10/09 19.6.5
kNN 06 Mon. 10/12 (Online: #15) Assignment 02 available
Wed. 10/14 19.7.1
Fri. 10/16 (Online: #17) 19.7.2, 19.7.3
SVMs 07 Mon. 10/19 19.7.5
Wed. 10/21 (Online: #19)
Fri. 10/23
SVMs &
Neural Networks
08 Mon. 10/26 (Online: #21) 19.7.6
Wed. 10/28 21.1.1
Fri. 10/30 (Online: #23) Assignment 02 due
Deep Learning 09 Mon. 11/02 21.1
Wed. 11/04 (Online: #25)
Fri. 11/06 21.4
Deep Learning 10 Mon. 11/09 (Online: #27) 21.2
Wed. 11/11 21.5
Fri. 11/13 (Online: #29) 21.3, 21.6, 21.8 Assignment 03 available
Markov Decision
Processes
& Clustering
11 Mon. 11/16 17.1
Wed. 11/18 (Online: #31)
Fri. 11/20 17.2
Dimensionality
Reduction
12 Mon. 11/23 (Online: #33)
Wed. 11/25 Class cancelled
Fri. 11/27 No Class
MDPs &
Reinforcement
Learning
13 Mon. 11/30 (Online: #34) 17.3, 17.4, 17.5
Wed. 12/02 (Online: #35) 22.1, 22.2
Fri. 12/04 (Online: #36) 22.3
Reinforcement
Learning
14 Mon. 12/07 (Online: #37) Assignment 03 due; Assignment 04 available
Wed. 12/09 (Online: #38) 22.4
Fri. 12/11 (Online: #39)
Additional Topics 15 Mon. 12/14 (Online: #40) 22.5, 22.6, 22.7
Wed. 12/16 (Online: #41) Assignment 04 "official" due date
Fri. 12/18 No Class
Final Exam 15 Sat. 12/19 Final Exam (2:30 PM – 4:30 PM, Online Canvas Quiz) —